Diocese of Morogoro
| Diocese of Morogoro | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Tanzania |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Dar es Salaam |
| Diocesan bishop | Telesphore Mkude |
| Apostolic Administrator | Lazarus Vitalis Msimbe SDS |
| founding | 1906 |
| surface | 39,498 km² |
| Parishes | 34 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| Residents | 581,563 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| Catholics | 435,787 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| proportion of | 74.9% |
| Diocesan priest | 65 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| Religious priest | 25 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 4,842 |
| Friars | 57 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| Religious sisters | 261 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| cathedral | St. Patrick's Cathedral |
| Website | www.morogoro.tk |
The Bistum Morogoro ( lat. : Dioecesis Morogoroensis ) is an in Tanzania preferred Roman Catholic diocese based in Morogoro .
history
The diocese of Morogoro was established on May 11, 1906 by Pope Pius X from cession of territory from the Apostolic Vicariate of North Zanzibar as the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Zanzibar . On December 21, 1906, the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Zanzibar was renamed the Apostolic Vicariate Bagamoyo . The Apostolic Vicariate Bagamoyo gave up on September 13, 1910 parts of its territory to establish the Apostolic Vicariate Kilimanjaro . Another cession took place on January 28, 1935 to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Dodoma .
On March 25, 1953, the Apostolic Vicariate Bagamoyo by Pope Pius XII. with the Apostolic Constitution Quemadmodum ad Nos raised to the diocese and renamed the Diocese of Morogoro . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Dar es Salaam as a suffragan .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Bagamoyo
- François-Xavier Vogt CSSp , 1906–1922, then Apostolic Administrator of Cameroon
- Bartholomew Stanley Wilson CSSp, 1924–1933, then Vicar Apostolic of Sierra Leone
- Bernhard Gerhard Hilhorst CSSp, 1934–1953
Bishops of Morogoro
- Bernhard Gerhard Hilhorst CSSp, 1953
- Herman Jan van Elswijk CSSp, 1954-1966
- Adriani Mkoba , 1966-1992
- Telesphore Mkude , since 1993